教皇利奥十四世周五呼吁人工智能应当“解除武装”。他说，关于人类生命、自由以及武力使用的决定，必须始终置于人类监督之下。
Pope Leo XIV called on Friday for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed”. Decisions on human life, freedom and the use of force must always stay under human oversight, he said.
据梵蒂冈发布的讲话稿，他在教宗公寓的枢机会议厅发表讲话，敦促将于11月在日内瓦开会的各国，推动禁止致命自主武器。听众正在参加一场关于人工智能未来的会议，该会议由宗座生命科学院和未来生命研究所联合举办。机器是工具，而非人教皇列出了五点。第一，人工智能的未来取决于人们的选择。他说，人们有责任引导、改变，并在必要时拒绝其应用。
In an address published by the Vatican, he urged the states meeting in Geneva in November to move towards banning lethal autonomous weapons. He spoke in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace. His audience was taking part in a meeting on the future of AI, which the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Future of Life Institute ran together. Machines are tools, not persons The pope set out five points. First, the future of AI depends on the choices people make. People have a duty to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its uses, he said.
他说：“因此，决定性的问题不仅仅是‘人工智能能做什么？’，而应当是‘它应当服务于什么目的？’”他警告说，将人工智能视为一场必须取胜的竞赛，可能会让人忽视被抛在后面的人。他说，如果没有人能预见或控制其影响，一个服务于人的可靠系统，比一个非常强大的系统更有价值。
“The decisive question, then, is not simply ‘What can AI do?’ but rather, ‘What purpose should it serve?’” he said. He warned that treating AI as a race to be won risks forgetting the people left behind. A reliable system that serves people is worth more than a very powerful one, he said, if nobody can foresee or control its effects.
他的第二点是，机器是工具，而非人。他反对赋予人工智能系统权利或法人资格的提议。
His second point was that machines are tools, not persons. He rejected proposals to give AI systems rights or legal personhood.
他说：“这种做法有掩盖人类责任、让受害者面对一个无面孔实体的风险。”
“Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity,” he said.
第三，人类绝不能将某些决定交给机器。他举了两个例子：目标清单和边境管控数据库。他说，名列其中的人可能沦为单纯的数据点。这正是他呼吁“解除人工智能武装”的由来。需要的是机构，而非更多原则第四，人工智能必须服务于共同利益，而非少数特权阶层的利益。第五点在他看来或许最为紧迫，关乎机构建设。他说，世界已经知晓许多伦理原则。世界现在需要的是能够将这些原则付诸实践的有效国际机构。“这需要共同标准、独立监督和明确的问责机制，”教皇说。
Third, people must never hand some decisions to machines. He gave two examples: a target list and a border control database. A person on either risks becoming a mere data point, he said. This is where his call to disarm AI came in. Institutions, not more principles Fourth, AI must serve the common good and not the interests of a privileged few. The fifth point, perhaps the most urgent in his view, was about institutions. The world already knows many of the ethical principles, he said. What the world needs now are effective international bodies that can put them into practice. “This calls for shared standards, independent oversight and clear mechanisms of accountability,” the pope said.
各国正在《联合国某些常规武器公约》框架下讨论致命自主武器。根据“触及关键意志”组织的消息，该公约第七次审查会议将于11月16日至20日在日内瓦举行。
States discuss lethal autonomous weapons under the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Its Seventh Review Conference meets in Geneva from 16 to 20 November, according to Reaching Critical Will.
教皇反复强调的立场 教皇还回顾了教皇方济各2024年在G7峰会上的讲话。方济各当时表示，任何机器都不应做出夺取人类生命的决定。周五提出的五点均引用了《卓越的人性》（Magnifica Humanitas），即利奥教皇于5月发布的关于人工智能的通谕。
A position the pope keeps returning to The pope also recalled the words of Pope Francis to the G7 in 2024. No machine should ever choose to take a human life, Francis said then. Each of Friday’s five points cites Magnifica Humanitas, the AI encyclical Leo published in May.
他以前也提出过这一论点。5月，他称人工智能主导的战争是一场毁灭的螺旋。9月，他说对人工智能安全的担忧并非假新闻。并非业界所有人都同意这一观点。Mistral公司首席执行官阿瑟·门施曾反驳教皇关于人工智能战争的言论。
He has made the case before. In May he called AI-directed warfare a spiral of annihilation. In September he said AI safety fears were not fake news. Not everyone in the industry agrees. Mistral’s chief executive, Arthur Mensch, has rebutted the pope on AI in warfare.